Coming Clean trailer design

I've recently been working on a series of animations for the feature documentary Coming Clean, which has recently been picked up by the New York Film Festival which required some extra design work for a promotional trailer. I pushed around a variety of 3D and 2D design solutions to try and capture a gritty/grainy feel to fit the mood of the film (crack addiction) and match the poster design. The 3D wasn't quite giving me what was needed, so I turned to a Canon 5D mk II, a macro lens and some chicken salt for a practical solution.

Coming Clean Official Trailer from Jason Boyer on Vimeo.

painterly feeling using static motion blur

Recently while working on an independent feature film, I was called upon to create a heaven type effect integrating green screen elements with a naturalistic painted feel. While researching techniques I stumbled across a Siggraph paper from years ago creating a stroke technique using motion blur, I adapted this idea to work in Maya by distorting objects in between frames with motion blur and sampling at a higher rate. This gives the look of the motion blur samples being frozen in time in 3D space, giving a 3D paintstroke feel. Having the green screen footage at Red 4k didn't hurt either.